Apparatus for measuring loads.



E. DE LORENZI.

APPARATUS FOR MEASURING LOADS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 15, mos.

954,262, Patented Apr. 5, 1910.

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EMILIO DE LORENZI, F GENOA, ITALY.

APPARATUS FOR MEASURING LOADS.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, EMILIO LORENVZI, subject of the King of Italy, residing at Campetto,-Genoa,'Kingdom of Italy, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Apparatus for Measuring Loads, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present mvention is to provide an apparatus, whereby itshall be possible to determine "at any moment the weight of the cargo of a ship, although the device may be. also utilized to give the weight of aload on terra firma. The operation of the device is-based upon the well known principle that a body immersed in .a

liquid is buoyed or pushed -up-by a forceis an elevation of the-adjacent ends of the.

two parts of the scale beam, showing them as separated; and Fig. 4, is a' perspective view of theload receiving box employed when. my device is used to determine the weight of a load on terra firma.

In the above-drawings H is a cylindrical or other suitably shaped body whose upper extremity is fixed t' htly to a lever E, E,

I mounted to oscillate around the fulcrum D,

which is carried by a suitable supporting structure omitted from the drawings; The lever is provided with a graduated portion B, on which there is slidably mounted a weight P provided with an indicator 0.

The body H is placed inside a vertical tube G, which has connected to its lower end a conduit L in which is a valve Z operated through a rod 1 extending through said projecting out of the upper end tube and thereof.

The whole apparatus is placed within the ship, the weight of whose cargo it is desired to measure, and the tube G is put into communication with the outside water by means of the above mentioned conduit pipe, the cock L being open so that the water will rise in said tube G to the same level as outside the ship. The body'H will thus be more or less immersed in thewater contained in the "Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 5, 1910.

Application filed January 15,1908. Serial No. 410,899.

tube G and will therefore be pushed upward so as to disturb the equilibrium of the lever. In order to reestablish this equilibrium it is necessary to move the weight P along the graduated portion B of the scale from the zero position which it occupies when the vessel is unloaded and in which said lever is balanced. 1 In order to obtain this original balance a countehweight A is employed which may be adjusted at the extremity of the rod of the lever. When the latter is in equilibrium the indicators n, n, of which one moves with the lever and the other is fixed to the support of the apparatus, must stand at one and the same height.

When the ship is being loaded, the depth of its immersion will increase and the level "of the water in the tube G will also rise, so

that it will be necessary to displace the weight P along the graduated portion B of the scale beam in order to maintain the lever in equilibrium. In other words, each position of the weight P upon the graduated portion B of the scale beam-will correspond, when the lever is in the" position of equilibrium, to a certain depth of immersion of the ship. In order to render the measure- B with a weight P is fixed to the lever, by

means of which it is possible to measure fractions of the units of the graduations' on the beam B.

By reading the indications shown by the indicators of the weights P and P upon the respective graduated beams B and B, the exact weight of the cargo loaded is obtained. The graduation of the beams B and B ismade by means of an appropriate scale of proportion compiled on the basis of the different values of the area of the horizontal 1section of the ship according to-the floating me.

In order to correct the error otherwise caused by the differences in the density of water-at different localities, an adjustable weight A is applied to one extremity of the lever, by means of which the above mentioned errors may be corrected.

The a paratusis provided with two finely threads screws F and F fixed to the supment more precise, a second graduated beam port of said apparatus so as to limit the short bar K perpendicular to its general line. The other part is provided at the end op posite to that having the weight A. with a socket C designed to receive the bar of the other part E; there being holes both in the bar and in the socket for the reception of a pin (not shown) whereby said parts may be held together in any of a number of adjusted positions.

In case the apparatus is installed in such a position that the reading of the graduated portions B and B is ditticult, it is possible, after having secured the weights P and P to their respective graduated portions, to separate the first part of the lever from the sec 0nd part, and remove it to a place where the reading may conveniently be made.

The apparatus may serve also for weighing loads on terra lirma and for this purpose I employ the box S, Fig. 3, which is made of metallic plate or other suitable material. its top it is connected with the rest of the box by means of flexible material such as leather or rubber, so disposed as to secure an hermetical closure of the box while permitting the weight of the top and the load thereon being transmitted to the sides of the box where the latter is filled with liquid. When in use said box is connected at the opening '1 through the conduit and cook L with the tube and is filled with water or other suitable liquid.

When a load is placed on the top R of the box S, the liquid contained in the latter will be subjected to a pressure that will produce in the tube G an elevation of the liquid level therein proportional to such load, and from this rise of level the Weight of the load may be deduced in the same manner as above described, provided that the scale beams be properly calibrated.

I claim: I

1. An apparatus for weighing cargoes on board of ships consisting of a lever having a graduated portion and a supporting fulcrum, an elongated body fixed to one arm of the lever, a tube serving as a container for said body and communicating with the water outside of the ship, so that said body is more or less immersed in. the water according to the immersion of the ship, with a weight on the graduated portion of the lever.

2. Weighing apparatus consisting of a scale beam having a fulcrum and provided with a graduated portion, a counterweight, with means for exerting upon said scale beam a force proportional to the weight of the body to be weighed, one portion of said scale beam having a vertical socket, the other having a vertical arm removably litting said socket.

in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

EMILIO DE LORENZI.

Witnesses:

GIOVANNI MA UIso, JEUNE, Aeusrlnn Barre. 

